CLEVELAND, Ohio – A 31-year-old Cleveland man is wanted after police accused him of breaking into a woman's apartment and ordering her to take off her clothes at gunpoint in March.

Detectives Monday obtained an arrest warrant for Rodrick Horne, charging him with kidnapping and burglary, according to Cleveland Municipal Court records.

The incident started just after 6:30 a.m. March 22, according to a police report. A 23-year-old woman woke to the crack of her back door busting open, and immediately called her friend.

A figure flashed by her door toward her young daughter's room, then stopped in the hall and came back into the threshold of her door.

The man was wearing a mask and his gloved hands held a pistol, the report said. He ordered her into the living room with a deep voice.

"Where's the money," the man asked, rifling through her things, according to the report.

Then he stood up straight, pointed the gun at the woman, and ordered her to take off her clothes, the report said. She offered the man her PlayStation console, video games, a cell phone and her TV.

"Don't look at me," the man said. "Turn around."

Just as the man started taunting her, the woman's friend came in the back door, and the man fled out the front, the report said. The friend followed, but he lost the man and came back inside.

The woman got dressed, gathered her daughter from her bedroom and the three went outside toward Central Avenue to wait for police.

As they got outside, the burglar ran from the back of the complex and spotted the three. He raised his pistol in the air and fired a single shot before running off, the report said.

Police got to the scene and placed the woman, her daughter and her friend in the back of a patrol car while they made sure her apartment was clear.

Outside, investigators found the shell casing and a pair of gloves.

The woman told police at the scene she did not recognize the man. Attempts to reach her and her friend Tuesday evening were unsuccessful.

Through witness interviews and investigative materials, police identified Horne as the suspect, according to court records. According to court records, he had not been arrested as of Wednesday morning.

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